Continuing to make progress with the new editor. Fixed several things, added support for @-mentions, better styling. There are still a couple quirks with the insertion cursor. If I can work through those, will ship this as soon as I can.

Screenshot of new Markdown editor for Micro.blog.
Tim Chambers

@manton Hi Manton: I know you have already said the Markdown focus and avoiding WYSIWYG even as an alternative editor is purposeful. But just came across a very functional one from my POV that might be "in between" those two options: is actually the post editor on the progressive blog community Daily Kos. It does ONLY the most basic formatting but does it well and gracefully. Need a dailykos account to create blog posts but it looks like this:

Manton Reece

@tchambers Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Manton Reece @manton
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